Stockton Malleable Institute Football team, season 1923 – 24 in which they won both the Stockton and Thornaby Nursing Cup and The Teesside League Championship. The names of the team are:
Back row: J. Purcifer, R. Goldsbrough, T. Spacey, W. Boiston, H. Hutchinson, C Atkinson.
Front row: A. Davies, G. Perry, F. Higgins (?) , E. Laskey, R. Nichol.
Photograph and details courtesy of Cliff Thornton.
A photograph of my great great grandfather and grandmother Elizabeth and Thomas Hind with Daughter Catherine on a trip to Whitby c1870’s. Thomas was a Master Printer who lived and had a workshop in Smith Street, Stockton.
A photograph of one of the so-called ‘west villas’ (there are 5 in total) located on Oxbridge Lane directly opposite to the Cemetery. They are all similarly sized, very large semi-detached houses. Note that these houses also have very large gardens at the rear.
Anyone remember these from the sixties? I found a signed copy of a book I won in April 1963 at Fairfield Junior Mixed School, Stockton. ‘What shall we draw’ by Adrian Hill.
Photograph and details courtesy of John Alderdice.
A picture of the fish shop in Hume Street, Stockton. I think it was owed by the Johnston family but I believe my nanna and granddad Tommy and Hilda Hall lived and worked here.
Photograph and details courtesy of Jacqui Henderson.
My Great Grandfather, Clifford Atkinson may be on the photograph but I am not 100% sure. I cannot find anything else on the web concerning the Malleable Celtic football team. Can anyone help?
The Billingham Branch of the Royal British Legion’s Christmas Party sometime in the 1950’s. Father Christmas was played by my late father John Thompson. My paternal grandmother was an active member of the Royal British Legion for many years and helped to organise the annual party.
Photograph and details courtesy of Michael Thompson.
I’m sure many of us will remember the Christmas Nativity plays from our school days, I never appeared in any of them but I do remember them being produced every year and I believe that they are still being produced to this day.
My only foray into the world of show business was in my final year at Billingham North Juniors, one group of pupils put on a play and the remainder were formed into a choir, I was among the latter, my great friend Brian Storey and myself had the worst singing voices ever, after a few rehearsals the teacher told us to stand in the back row and mime, at the time we thought it was a huge laugh, nowadays we would probably need counselling.
In my first year at Billingham Campus Stephenson Hall there was a Christmas Concert featuring four final year pupils performing Buddy Holly songs, they were terrific, the lead guitarist and vocalist was Alan Harrison, in later years he was in a number of local pop groups and changed his name to Rhett Allen. Great memories of great times.
I have some names of the people in the photos:
First Photo (1954): Saundra Liddle, Edna Griffiths, Sandra Hargreaves, Mary Trotter, Margaret Hodgson, Margaret Newton, Ann Clark, Eileen Robson, Joan Hardisty, Patricia Appleton, Ian Helps.
Second Photo (1955): Edna Griffiths, Saundra Liddle, Margaret Newton, Sandra Hargreaves, Norman Nicholson, Kenneth Smailes, Mary Trotter, Jennifer Patterson, James Hutchison, David Hurst, James Ewart.
Details courtesy of Bruce Coleman. Photographs kindly supplied by Sandra Hargreaves.
Tom Lakey played for Stockton AFC when they won the FA Amateur Cup in 1899, when Stockton beat Harwich and Parkston 1 – 0. This is a photograph of Tom in his Grimsby strip.
This photograph of Westbury Street Girls School, Thornaby is dated 1949. I think my mother is the girl just below the top line of girls – her head is above the second row, slightly right of the centre. Her name was Margaret Hough. Sadly she passed away in 2013 at the age of 74.
Photograph and details courtesy of Christine Willis.
This book was given as a school prize to my great-grandmother, Edith Mary Jackson in 1894 for ‘3rd prize in needlework’ when attending Norton Board School. Also included is a photograph of Edith and her husband, John Edward Wood.
A composite photograph of the three Drinkel brothers. From left to right: Harry, a mechanic in the Royal Flying Corps (he was Mayor of Thornaby in 1951/2), Horace, a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery, and Sapper Joe of the Royal Engineers.